Scouting Report: Eddie Vanderdoes

More recently I heard that Poggi is up around 265.  If that's true, then he should be able to get up to 280+ within the next 16 months.  But when I talk about playing early, I mean 2013 or 2014 (not necessarily his true freshman season).

1. Henry Poggi

2. Montravius Adams

3. Eddie Vanderdoes

4. Lowell Lotulelei

5. Justin Manning

Thanks.  There are some people who agree with you, but the dissenters are often more vocal.

Some guys look great in pads.  Some don't.  Some kids look great without pads.  Some don't.  When you don't have helmets or shoulder pads, when the defensive ends are going after a stationary target, when the offensive linemen aren't working on combo blocks or picking up blitzes, it's just really hard to tell.

When an offensive tackle is pass blocking and the defensive lineman is pass rushing only, that's not a real game situation.  And run blocking is much more important for a team like Michigan, but that's a very difficult thing to simulate in a camp setting when guys aren't wearing any equipment except maybe a mouth piece.

I think you can learn quite a bit about cornerbacks in a camp setting, but that's really the only position where I think evaluations can be helpful.  If a cornerback can stick with receivers on a wide-open field when the receiver can run virtually any route he wants to, that's pretty good news.

Wow, dude. I'm pretty sure these kids can handle criticism. I'm sure their coach tells them regularly what they need to work on. If they want to play professional sports, they'd definitely better learn to handle people commenting on their skill set. Maybe you're afraid of criticism, but I think these kids can handle it. Dawson for one certainly seems to have taken it as a prove-him-wrong thing if he was compelled to tweet about it. If the kids are really that thin-skinned, do we want them anyway?

First, anyone who is going to play college football at the Division 1 level doesn't suck, it's about levels of good at that point. But a lot of recruiting and switching from 1 level to another is about projection. Coaches look at a player and it's about what they see in a player. Can we take so-and-so from Point A to Point B, does he have the foundation, build, and skills necessary. There are only so many ZOMG players that all coaches want because they are that much surer that the player can make the jump quickly and effectively. The rest need varying degrees of work.

And the coaches do their best to land whatever guys they can. There are maybe 50 Universities that have a ton to offer a prospect and you're not going to win every battle. You do the best you can to land your plan A guys and then you move on to the plan B or even C or D guys, and guess what. That plan B guy might not be nearly as good. He might be a huge project. It's all just opinions, and it's fun. And if you want to talk about Dawson and Tilman, both are still on board and both said it will just motivate them more. They chose the University for the education, coaches, and depth chart. I think you overestimate Magnus' power.

fact is it pisses off recruits and that is counter productive. Fact.

Do you have any evidence of this "fact"? And don't point to the Dawson tweet, because Magnus' evaluation of him obviously didn't keep him from committing.

You better be careful.  You might piss off Chris Rock.  You just said that Wormley and Strobel are better.  I can't believe you're bashing a kid who played for Michigan, saying that he would have been beaten out by other guys.  You ought to be ashamed of yourself.